Bag or sack holder.



Nn. 632',I75. Patented Aug. 29, |899.

D. S. COOK. l

BAG on sAcK HOLDER.

(Application filed Apr. 26, 1899.)

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UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID S. COOK, OF SELLERSBURG, INDIANA.

BAG 0R SACK HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 632,175, dated August29, 1899.

Original application filed August l0, 1898, Serial No. 688,264. Dividedand this application iiled April 25, 1899. Serial No.

' 714,418. (No model.)

such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,and to figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

Figure l of the drawings is a representation of a side elevation, partlyin section, of the invention as applied. Fig. 2 is a section on lineFig. "1, illustrating the operation of the sleeve-sections 8.

This invention is designed to provide certain new and usefulimprovements in bag or sack holders especially designed for use inconnection with weighing-machines such as described in my applicationfor patent August 10, 1898, Serial No. 688,264, of which thisapplicaiion is a division; and the invention consists in the novelconstruction and combination of parts, all as hereinafter described, andpointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings the numeral 2 designates a weight-box; 3,the dischargevalve thereof; 4, the operating mechanism for said valve;5, a box or casing into which said box discharges its contents afterthey have been weighed, and which is formed with a discharge-opening 6in its bottom. Secured to the casing around said opening is a dependingpipe 7, which carries the bag or sack holder. This holder consistsprincipally of approximately semicylindrical expanding sleeves 8, whichsurround the lower portion of the pipe 7. These sleeve-sections arecontrolled in their operation by the followingdescribed mechanism:

.Iournaled in bearings 9 of the casting 10 is a rock-shaft 11, whoselaterally-projecting end portions are formed with cranks 12. The

central portion of said shaft 1l has a crank 13, to the pin of which isconhected the upper end of a link 14. The lower end of this link ispivotally connected to the central portion of a transverse pin 15, uponwhich the sleeve-sections 8 are hung and which has v'ertical play inslots 16 in the pipe 7.

Riveted or otherwise firmly secu-red to each sleeve-section 8 a shortdistance above its lower end is a lug 17, and connecting the said lugswith a iixed pin 18, supported in downward extensions or projections 19of the pipe 7, are links 20.

It will be readily understood that by turning the cranks 12 in adirection to move the link 14 downwardly, thereby depressing the pin 15in the slots 16, the sleeve-sections 8 will be opened or expanded, asshown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, thereby securely holding the sack orpackage into the mouth of which they have been inserted and alsocompletely inclosing such mouth. A reverse movement of the crankwillcontract said sections.

Although for purposes of illustration I have shown the device inconnection with particular weighing apparatus forming the subject ofanother application, above referred to, it is obvious that it may beused in connection with other machines.

Having thus described my invention, what Iclaim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. 'Ihe combination with a depending discharge pipe or chute, of a bagor sack holder therefor, consisting of two pivoted expansiblesleeve-sections carried by said pipe or chute and means for operating ina vertical plane said sections to expand and contract them,substantially as specified.

2. The combination with a discharging pipe or chute of the bag or sackholder therefor, consisting of the expansible sleeve-sections, atransverse pin which carries said sections and which is loosely seatedin vertical slots of said pipe or chute, a rock-shaft, a link connectinga crank of said shaft with the said pin, and links` which looselyconnect the sleeve-sections and the said pipe or chute,substantially asspecified.

3. The combination with a discharge pipe or chute of the bag Vor sackholder therefor, consisting of two expansible semieylindrioals1eeVe-seotions,1inks conneetingsaid sections to the lower portion ofsaid pipe or chute, a vertically-'movable connection between the upperportions of said sections and the pipe or chute, an operating-shaft, anda connection between said shaft and the said movable connection,substantially as-specied. lo

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

DAVID S. COOK. WVitnesses:

ALEX. XV. TIPPETT, W. S. SPEED.

